finding my own ip

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:01:56PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On Fedora and Debian, check out the ez-ipupdate tool, it works with 10+ 
> dynamic dns providers. With that you just ssh to you.dnsprovider.com I 
> have the equivalent setup to run on my router's firmware and it is the 
> easiest and most convenient way to keep up to date with your ip.
> 
> You could setup curl to login to and scrape the IP from the netgear 
> interface too, but having a subdomain is easier to remember and you 
> don't have to check your email first.
> 
> There is also an External IP plugin for Firefox, but it just uses one of 
> those 10+ external websites ez-ipupdate uses anyways.

I use the package ddclient on debian to update my dyndns entry.  Works
great.

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